With an impressive, in-depth start-up team having close ties to Harvard and MIT, QuEra Computing is a neutral-atoms-based quantum computing startup. The firm's declared mission is to build the industrys most scalable quantum computers to tackle useful but classically intractable problems for commercially relevant applications in optimization, simulation, materials science, pharmaceuticals, QuEra's quantum machines utilize nature's perfect qubits based on Rydberg atoms: fast, high quality gates, and scalability to millions of qubits. Defining atoms as "nature's perfect qubits" - all identical to one another without even the possibility of defects, the effort is to leverage these properties to store and process quantum information. Objective: development machines (256-512 qubit) with full-stack software allowing quantum simulation and prototyping various algorithms accessible by the end of 2021.
